Multivalent recombinant protein vaccine against coccidioidomycosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 5802-5813

  Tarcha, Eric J ^a   Basrur, Venkatesha ^a   Hung, Chiung Yu ^b   Gardner, Malcolm J ^c   Cole, Garry T ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA MANNOSIDASE; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE C; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CHITINASE; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; ENDO 1,3 BETA GLUCANASE; EPITOPE; FUNGUS VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCAN 1,3 BETA GLUCOSIDASE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEIN AMN1; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE; PROTEIN PEP1; PROTEIN PLB; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENOME; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL WALL; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL VACCINES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOMICS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 33749237348     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00961-06     Document Type: Article

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